Exciting news, though no sadly photos yet, on the Fallout 3 collector’s edition:

This premium Fallout 3 package, presented in a customized, metal Vault-Tec lunch box, includes the highly-anticipated game, a collectible 5” Vault-Tec Vault Boy Bobblehead, ‘The Art of Fallout 3’ hardcover book, featuring never-before-seen concept art and commentary from Bethesda Game Studios artists, and ‘The Making of Fallout 3’ DVD that includes an inside look at Bethesda Game Studios and the team behind the game.

I pretty much don’t leave the house during the daytime. Why would I want a lunchbox? But oh, I do…

Oh, we do have a pic of the wondrous Bobblehead, as Walker has one from a press trip. It’s a bit too big for our cineramascope post images, so here you go.

I won the lunchbox and bobblehead (and other things like an Xbox) in their 10th anniversary create a perk contest and have used the lunchbox lots of times. It’s pretty awesome and I love it. Unfortunately even though there are other gamers in the office where I work, all of them are console guys and so they have no idea how cool it is (and by association how cool I am).

I won a bobble head in the comp as well. Absolutely love mine, all clay and made in china and all:) 18Rabbit did you win a first prize or were you a runner up? Got a ps3 controller and bunch of stickers and stuff as well. Damn Bethesda, tempting me to buy a ps3 now…

Wonder how man of those perks will make it into the game or if only first prize

I’d largely agree, but if you were to offer me limited editions of Anachronox and Dreamfall with a fully poseable PAL-18 and a plush (or better yet, working) Watilla respectively then I’d snap them up in a heartbeat.

What exactly would most of us expect from Collector’s Editions? Me, it makes me feel like a kid again flicking through the glossy pages of concept art books and having a little figurine to put next to my monitor. I love that stuff.

I remember I only bought the Half Life II collector’s edition because the price had been reduced. Although I liked the t-shirt that came with it, whoever had made up the box certainly knew their target audience; it was in fat nerd size, preventing me from wearing it outside the house since it hung loosely almost down to my knees.

Art books are awesome and one of the things I really want in CEs. I don’t want useless figurines and lunchboxes. Other things I want: making-of/cinematic DVDs (I’d rather have developer commentary in the game, but I’ll settle for this.), soundtracks, strategy guides, previous games in the series (especially if remastered), related novels/comics/movies/etc, in-game content (of a largely cosmetic nature, otherwise it’s kind of a slap in the face for people who couldn’t come by the CE in time), related game content such as the City of Heroes HeroClix miniatures in the City of Villains CE or the WoW TCG stuff in Burning Crusade’s CE (it did have such things, right?).

Other things I don’t want: pretty much anything that takes up space for no apparent reason. Things like posters and standees and bags full of faux gold coins.

meh just go to nma and you can get fallout 2 and 1 to work on vista you can even get a patch that unlocks and adds content originaly intended for the fallout 2, nma’s mod community has done the work a long time ago no point waiting for a studio to do it.

Fallout 1 and 2 actually work flawlessly for me on Vista. That was a shocker for me, I didn’t even need to do anything fancy to get them working. Every so often I will boot them up again just to make sure they actually do work so well and I wasn’t just dreaming it.